Super Bowl Fans to Splurge on 6 Million Wings, 4.5 Million TVs
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Chicken wings and big-screen TVs may help drive Super Bowl spending past $10 billion this year for the first time as more Americans throw parties and crowd sports bars to root for the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers.
Buffalo Wild Wings Inc., a Minneapolis-based restaurant chain, predicts it will sell about 6 million wings for the Feb. 6 National Football League title game, up 9 percent from last year, Chief Executive Officer Sally Smith said in an interview. The most popular: honey barbeque and spicy garlic.